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Puzzle and I are each building a WK100 (Barry Ogletree design) al la Ben Huggett color design. We spent two days cutting out the fabric and other day and a half sewing the kite. I just need to bridle up mine and Puzzle has a couple more hours of sewing. Cutting everything out was the major work. Sewing the WK100 was not too difficult, mainly as there are no unsupported ribs (each rib lines up with a keel). If you'd not seen Ben's Cloud Coulor kite, the colored ribs bleed through the white skin when it's flying in the sun.

jeez..that guy in the orange shirt sits around a lot That looks great! Glad you guys are able to do this project.....next up see if you can talk Ken M into allowing another Ichiban small group build!!!!

jeez..that guy in the orange shirt sits around a lot That looks great! Glad you guys are able to do this project.....next up see if you can talk Ken M into allowing another Ichiban small group build!!!!

HA!!! I was waiting for that! Puzzle told me, all that video is going to show is me sitting down all of the time. Around 20 second into the video you might also see him holding up his hand like he's shooting me and I throw my arms up. We tried to do that really slow so it would look normal in the video (but you need to hold that pose for about 15-30 seconds). Yeah... we were a little tired at the time.

I'e built several larger SLKs before but the material was already cut out. Cutting it out is not difficult but it just takes _forever_! Course, the labor was a little more intensive as we had the multi-colored ribs to deal with.

hey, todd measures i cut, cant help it todds slow lol, i have such a respect for kite builders after 2 small projects. think we did the colors straight and you did them at an angle, that might defuse the colors more

think we did the colors straight and you did them at an angle, that might defuse the colors more

Yes, I was looking for the total diffusion effect. After talking with John Rose - from whom I developed the color diffusion concept - I went with a long angle where each color on the ribs meets - that spreads the two color overlap over 24" thus resulting in a blend of colors on mine.

That photo from Puzzle is John C worthy! Someone needs to send that into the AKA, IMHO.

The fabric from Emma was good... but as mentioned in KA51, the white has some bend in the weaves staring about the middle to one edge. Not a lot and I don't know that it created any issues. At least not for us as we used that side of excess. The white is fairly translucent.

I don't know that the angles make much of a difference other then on the white in the front (keeping the person from seeing the color in the mouth of the kite) as the color viewable through the white seems to only be from a few inches of fabric.

I don't think I'd do it but I wonder what black ribs would look like in a white skinned kite. What I would consider doing is something like all one color inner ribs, such as all orange.

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